{"id":144,"date":"2004-10-29T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2004-10-29T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T13:59:31","slug":"when-is-a-map-not-a-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"When is a map not a map?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it is one of the most widely used and recognised diagrams in the world.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcfour\/books\/readers\/profiles\/writers.shtml?d=2002\/1114&amp;w=crane_nicholas\">Nicholas Crane<\/a> has written a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/feature\/story\/0,,1305084,00.html\">short but informative feature<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/tfl\/tube_map.shtml\">London Underground map\/diagram<\/a> and how it has helped shape London and Londoner&#8217;s perceptions of how their city looks.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d prefer pictures, GeoffTech&#8217;s excellent&nbsp;site has more than&nbsp;a few versions of the Tub Map &#8211; some serious, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geofftech.co.uk\/tube\/sillymaps\/geographical_map.jpg\">geographically correct version<\/a>, some less so like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geofftech.co.uk\/tube\/sillymaps\/hignfy_map.jpg\">Have I Got News For You version<\/a> and some just plain&nbsp;silly like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geofftech.co.uk\/tube\/sillymaps\/blankedout_map.jpg\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it is one of the most widely used and recognised diagrams in the world.&nbsp; Nicholas Crane has written a&nbsp;short but informative feature about the London Underground map\/diagram and how it has helped shape London and Londoner&#8217;s perceptions of how their city looks. If you&#8217;d prefer pictures, GeoffTech&#8217;s excellent&nbsp;site has more than&nbsp;a few versions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}